Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Spain Day

Warm Up (20 mins)

Each player has a ball, the practice starts with players moving around the area. The coach will then challenge the players by throwing in bibs, tennis balls, extra footballs that they have to keep in the air (throwing to each other) whilst they are dribbling around.

Progressions:

Bring in scoring gates

Coaching Points:

- Spatial awareness

- Close Control

- Looking where you are going

2 v 2 Practice (20 mins)

Dribbling 2 v 2 Practice

2 x 20 by 20 areas.

In this exercise players will look to develop their 2 v 2 skills in both attack and defence. Blue players feed the ball to the red players who will look to attack the 2 goals/1 goal, the blue players will defend and try and score themselves. This will be a player led activity with minimal input from the coach.

Key Outcomes - Speed of attack, running with the ball, moves to beat the player.

Play for 15 minutes

Dribbling SSG (20 mins)

Passing SSG

2 pitches set up like above, if 1 team pass to a player who RUNS into the red corner they will get 2/3 goals compared to 1 goal if they score past a goalkeeper.

Rotate teams around so they play against different opposition. If numbers allow you could play the same on 1 pitch.

Adaptation

If a player receives the ball in the red square and their team score from the attack they get 2/3 goals.

Group B Euro Tournament! (20 mins)